Off the Hour / May 22th, 5-6pm / Montreal march in support to Baltimore

Tune in to Off the Hour, your community news show on CKUT, for all the best in news from Montreal and beyond!

Featured on today’s program:

Today on the show, Montrealers took to the streets on Wednesday night in solidarity with the Baltimore uprising in the wake of Freddie Gray’s murder by police last month. CKUT’s Antoine Cadaux was there to file a report.

Then, on May 12th, the Migrant Sex Worker’s Project and Butterfly, an Asian and migrant sex workers support network, held a forum in Toronto to discuss some of the problems with discourse of «anti-trafficking». Following the event, CKUT’s Emily Enhorning spoke with Elene Lam, founder of Butterfly, about some of these issues.

And finally, we’ll hear a report on a demonstration this morning in Toronto against Hudbay Minerals, with activists accusing the Canadian company of human rights abuses from Manitoba to Guatemala to Peru.

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